Dan Shafer wrote:
I had lunch today with a good friend who is a serious Java gear-head.
He says the IDE he uses -- Eclipse (which is open source) -- has dozens
of bugs that require knowledgeable workarounds. "Any programmer worth
his or her salt knows that tiptoeing around these land mines goes with
the territory," he claims.
I think the real problem with Rev is its schizophrenia: it's a fairly
serious developer IDE that tries also to be usable by and accessible to
people with little or no programming training and experience. Those
folks don't have the high level of tolerance for bugs and quirks that
professionals do. They expect things like the IDE to actually work.
That was one of the reasons Dr. Raney only sold licenses for $995 -- it
was a sort of marketing filter that worked well for him on two sides:
- It meant he sold fewer license, but he didn't have to sell as many to
earn the same money
- His support costs were faaaaaaaaaaaaar below industry averages, since
he was dealing with people who had usually been around the block with
enough other tools to know how to deal with the small stuff.
I'm not suggesting Rev do the same, just agreeing that selling something
as powerful as Rev cheaply is indeed a double-edged sword.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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